STRAWMAN Agenda for ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee

Assume 30 min per event, except as noted

Presentations must leave 5 min for questions

Start 0900 11 September

09:00-09:10 Welcome and establish plan for writing report (10 min) (Leo Bronfman, Ewine van Dishoeck, Geoff Blake, Yasuo Fukui)

09:10-09:30 Project Update (20 min)(Brown)

09:30-10:00 Toward a Three-Way Partnership (30 min)(Ishiguro)

10:00-10:40 AMAC report; management and structure of the project in Chile (40 min)( Dick Kurz and Marc Rafal)

10:40-11:10 Site Issues (Radford, Nyman, Sakamoto)

11:10-11:30 Break

11:30-12:00 The Atacama Compact Array: Design and Simulations (30 min)(Guilloteau, Wootten, Hasegawa)

12:00-1:00 Discussion of Science (Cox, Crutcher and Welch, Leaders)

1:00-2:00 Lunch, coffee

2:00-2:30 Band 10 Science Case (Yamamoto)
 
2:00-2:20 Report from CorrelatorTokyo Correlator MeetingProduction Planning (Chikada)

2:20-2:55 Discussion*(Blake, van Dishoeck, Nakai; Yamamoto, Bachiller)
                Recapitulation of Bands 1, 4 and 8, and enhanced/future correlator science cases

2:55-3:30 Prioritization of Enhancements (van Dishoeck, Fukui, Blake)

3:30-4:00 Software (Morita, Glendenning, Lucas)
                 Status of all on-line and off-line aspects and SSR requirements;
                 Report of Berkeley meeting, report on data reduction -> AIPS++

4:00-4:15 Break, coffee

4:15-4:45 Discussion on Software (Benz, Tatematsu, Gurwell, Leaders)
 

4:45-5:15 Calibration Issues (Guilloteau, Wootten, Hasegawa)

5:15-5:45 Discussion (Richer, Wilson, Matsuo)

5:45-7:30 ASAC only session

8:00-??    Dinner (TBA)

Start 0900 February 24, coffee available

09:00-9:30 Operations (Kurz, Rafal, Kawabe)

09:30-10:00 Discussion* (Evans, Leader)

10:00-10:30 Receivers (Payne, )
                    Status various prototype developments, related ASAC issues,
                    Progress report on plans for mass production

10:30-11:10 Discussion*(Blake, Nakai, van Dishoeck, Leaders)

11:10-11:30 Break

11:00-12:00 Report on prototype antennae (Baars, Mangum, Chikada)

12:00-12:20 Status Test Interferometer (Mangum)

12:20-1:00 Discussion*( Walmsley, Fukui and Welch, Leaders)

1:00-2:15 Lunch, coffee, walk around Cerro Calan

2:15-2:30 Outreach, P. R.; Wootten

2:30-02:50 Other Chajnantor Projects

(10 min) The ASTE Project (Kawabe)

(10 min) The APEX Project (Schilke?)

Discussion*

2:50-4:00 Writing assignments and subgroup meetings*

4:00-5:00 Meeting of the whole, reports, election of new Vice-Chairperson*

5:00 Adjourn at 5 PM

A partial list of things to read before the meeting

Calibration:

Documents previously distributed: A key reference is the Calibration White Paper .

ACA Issues:

Receivers:

Please also see:

Report of the Front End PDR

Water Vapor Radiometry

Documents from previous meetings: The Cambridge and Onsala groups have proposed the next generation of 183 GHz Line Monitors (PS) and 183 GHz Line Monitors (MSWord).

Correlator

Configurations

Please visit the ALMA Configuration Page.

Possible Participants

Baars, Jaap
Bachiller, Rafael
Baudry, Alain
Blake, Geoffrey
Bronfman, Leonardo
Brown, Robert
Chikada, Yoshihiro
Cox, Pierre
Crutcher, Richard
DeVos, Marco
Emerson, Darrel
Evans, Neal
Fukui, Yasuo
Guilloteau, Stephane
Gurwell, Mark
Hasegawa, Tetsuo
Ishiguro, Masato
Kawabe, Ryohei
Kurz, Richard
Matsuo, Hiroshi
Menten, Karl
Momose, Munetake
Nakai, Naomasa
Rafal, Marc
Richer, John
Sakamoto, Seiichi
Scoville, Nick
Shaver, Peter
Tatematsu, Ken'ichi
van Dishoeck, Ewine
Walmsley, Malcolm
Welch, Jack
Wild, Wolfgang
Wilson, Christine
Wootten, Al
Yun, Min S.

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